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Zipcar Raises $21 Million to Finance Expansion
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16 Dec 2010Popular car-sharing service Zipcar has raised $21 million in a Series G round led by Meritech Capital Partners with participation from Pinnacle Ventures. The new funding signals that the company’s previous plans to go public may have been put on hold. Founded in 2000, Zipcar’s hourly car rental service now includes 500,000 members and 8,000 [...]
Old media often bemoans the copy-and-paste habits of bloggers and self-professed citizen journalists, alleging that the “re-reporting” they do is more akin to plagiarism than journalism. Smarting under these kinds of accusations, the blogosphere eagerly took up a story writer Monica Gaudio posted to her blog Wednesday evening in which she described how a for-profit [...]
A Brief History of 9 Popular Blogging Platforms
In: web resources
6 Aug 2010Even though Microsoft’s spell check insists that “blog” and “blogger” are not real words, they’ve been been in the dictionary since 2003. Blogs and their platforms have a lengthy history. The beginnings of blogging was a time not unlike today: Plaid was in style, a beloved rock star had passed, and the Internet was just [...]
Zipcar, Inc. has just filed the necessary SEC paperwork to prepare an initial public offering (IPO) of shares of its common stock. Zipcar, founded in 2000, is a company that operates in urban areas and college campuses around the U.S., UK and Canada. Their product is one of ultimate convenience: For non-car-owning members, Zipcar rents [...]
We are all aware of the teen pregnancy problem. Here in the States, it is around 30%, which to me, is alarmingly high. A creative firm in California, Gridnik, recently created a controversial yet effective campaign called “The Abstinence Project” to encourage young college students to use alternative methods to unprotected sex. This campaign, created [...]
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